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IndyCar's morning after the night before as Dre Harrison and RJ O'Connell review their Streets of Detroit round, with a bonus bit of chat about IMSA's Detroit Sprint Race the day before.
Given Detroit is their home ground, it was a rough day for Chevy as Alex Palou took his third pole position in a row, and despite some swings and roundabouts for strategy, held off Kyle Kirkwood at the end of the race to take his fourth win of 2026, and extending his Championship lead to 62 points. But how we got there involved another tough set of crashes for ECR, Santino Ferrucci in the wars again, and more clumsy driving around a really unforgiving layout.
Also included, a deep dive on IndyCar's new caution rules being put to the test, how a more in jured Josef Newgarden than we thought was actively claiming to be benched for the race, and some industrial sized beef between former teammates Scott McLaughlin and Will Power, that somehow wasn't penalised. Where did Dre put that beehive?

It's the moment we'd all been waiting for in the 2026 title battle - BEEF between the leading men at Mercedes as F1 headed to Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix. 
And what a moment it was, Kimi tries to hang it around the outside of Russell in the Sprint Race, and Russell runs Kimi over the Turn 2 grass to keep his place for the win. And this begins the awkward conversations about racecraft, rules of engagement and how Mercedes drivers want to race each other. 
Antonelli won the battle mind you, with Russell's battery failure in the GP meaning he now sits 43 points behind Antonelli in the Championship. Is Russell already in severe trouble?
Also discussed in an ice cold GP - Lewis Hamilton's best weekend in red as he finished P2 ahead of Max Verstappen's Red Bull, Hadjar picking up 40 seconds of penalties and still finishing 5th, and Franco Colapinto's best result for Alpine too. All that and more on another M101!

A tough week for us all in Motorsport. Sadly, the same night we completed our Indy 500 Preview Podcast, we got the devastating news that NASCAR's winningest driver Kyle Busch had suddenly passed away due to complications from Sepsis at the age of just 41. It was a sombre weekend with heartbreaking tributes to him across Motorsport. The boys too pay tribute to an incredible legacy and a driver who understood that racing was about telling a story.
Then they review the 110th Indy 500 as Felix Rosenqvist took advantage of a changing weather schedule, a bold startegy, some monster fuel saving, and a brilliant final showdown with teammate Marcus Armstrong and David Malukas to take ultimate glory in what was the closest and maybe greatest Indy 500 of them all.

And back-to-back days with a Podcast, huzzah! Dre, Cam and RJ are joined by Frontstretch.com's Christopher DeHarde to talk about the 110th Running of the Indy 500 tomorrow, the story so far, and preview the grid before the world's biggest race.
It was a dramatic week of prep for quali in a different way - With Bump Day not on the table due to exactly 33 entrants, we had a change of format, with an extra elimination round for Sunday as only Positions 1-9 being locked into the Fast 12, and an extra elimination round for positons 10-15. But with rain destroying Saturday's running, we went to single-run eliminations and a standard Fast 12 and 6 round.
It looked like Felixz Rosenqvist had Qualifying in the bag, but a poor final run opened the door for a trimmed-out Alex Palou to take his second Indy 500 pole position and a $100,000 bonus. 
And on top of that - Alex Rossi, Pato O'Ward and Romain Grosjean had a huge crash on Monday practice, with Rossi breaking his ankle, but still racing on Sunday. The gang break it all down here!

A chilling edition of the Motorsport101 podcast as Dre, RJ and Cam review a MotoGP weekend in Barcelona that had two enormous red flag crashes. During the race, Alex Marquez crashed into the back of Pedro Acosta's KTM as it was cutting out. His bike veers violently towards the wall and Marquez falls out, breaking his clavicle and M7 vertebrae, he'll be out for at least the next two races.
After the race restarted, Johann Zarco locks a brake going into Turn 1, but gets his leg trapped in the frame of Pecco Bagnaia's Ducati, tearing several ligaments in his knee, his meniscus and breaking the bottom of his fibula. He'll be back in France for at least a fortnight before surgery on his leg to repair the damage. Eventually, Fabio di Giannantonio won, but at what cost?
The trio ask the difficult questions. We ponder if KTM should have been allowed back onto the grid after several mechanical problems with their bikes. Should the race have restarted at all with the mood so sour and riders clearly conflicted about wanting to race again. And does Barcelona need more Safety Changes after another horrible accident there? Time for a reprofile of Turn 1? Does Turn 12 need more runoff after Jorge Martin suffered a potential concussion, only to then crash five more times across the weekend? And finally, does the sport need a riders union? 
All that and more on an emotionally loaded Motorsport101.